Life giving resources. Faithfully delivered.
FREE delivery on orders over £10
Serving over 2 million Christians in the UK
with Bibles, Books and Church Supplies
Our Buy-Now-Pay-Later accounts used
by over 4,000 UK Churches & Schools
Excellent 4.8 out of 5

Trustpilot

You now have 0 of this item in your basket

Fetishes and Monuments

Afro-Brazillian Art and Culture in the 20th Century [Hardback]

by Roger Sansi

Author
Roger Sansi
Book Format
Hardback
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Published
December 2007

Read full description

Click to expand

Today's Price

£127.27

Free UK Delivery

Available - Usually dispatched within 4 days

Buying for a school or church? Upgrade to a FREE Eden Advance Account

Enter the product quantity

Fetishes and Monuments

Today's Price £127.27

Frequently Bought Together

Fetishes and Monuments

by Roger Sansi

Hardback

The Return of the Prodigal Son

by Henri J. M. Nouwen

Paperback

Add both to basket for £138.83

Product Description

One hundred years ago in Brazil the rituals of Candomble were feared as sorcery and persecuted as crime. Its cult objects were fearsome fetishes. Nowadays, they are Afro-Brazilian cultural works of art, objects of museum display and public monuments. Focusing on the particular histories of objects, images, spaces and persons who embodied it, this book portrays the historical journey from weapons of sorcery looted by the police, to hidden living stones, to public works of art attacked by religious fanatics that see them as images of the Devil, former sorcerers who have become artists, writers, and philosophers. Addressing this history as a journey of objectification and appropriation, the author offers a fresh, unconventional, and illuminating look at questions of syncretism, hybridity and cultural resistance in Brazil and in the Black Atlantic in general.